Sunglasses on: cool, confident, unbothered. It shows the sender feels good about themselves or a situation.
Common after a win, a smooth move or a bit of showing off, and around beach days and sunny weather. It is lightly boastful and friendly enough for work, for example after fixing a tricky bug.
Facts
Smiling face with sunglasses ๐ is an emoji in the smileys and emotion category, under face glasses. It became part of the emoji standard in Emoji 1.0, released in 2015. On GitHub, Slack and other apps you can type it as :sunglasses: or :smiling_face_with_sunglasses:. People also look for it with words like โawesomeโ, โbeachโ, โbrightโ, or โbroโ.
Timeline
2015Added to the emoji standard (Emoji 1.0)
Design history
Google (Noto)
2015
2017
2020
2026
Twemoji (X, Discord)
2014
Google Noto Emoji images: Apache 2.0. Twemoji graphics by X Corp and contributors: CC-BY 4.0.